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In this response, the author highlights the contributions of E. P. Cook, M. J. Heppner, and K. M. O'Brien's (2002) ecological approach to women's career development and reviews the ways that the case studies in this special section illustrate that model. Although this model may enrich and improve career theories and counseling, the author urges caution in assuming that the emphases of an ecological model apply to all women. The concept of individual differences within, as well as between, the genders must remain paramount in career theory and counseling approaches. The author urges further attention to research and counseling interventions that help explicate the utility of the ecological model.

On a recent weekday, Hometowners Barbara Nordby and Cara Pesek set out from Lincoln toward Bennet, with the goal of making it to Tecumseh -- eventually. Dennis and Lisa Gardner, who live southwest of Bennet, opened the place as atribute to Dennis' mother. She was born in Lincoln, the eighth child of Everisto Uribe of Jalisco, Mexico, pictured in a portrait at the restaurant holding a pistol. He and other volunteers have contributed many hours to put together a museum in an old church downtown at 3rd and Lincoln streets. There are old ladies' dresses, dusty issues of the Tecumseh Chieftan newspaper, and Civil War memorabilia.

In the late 1940s, my mother applied for a war widow's pension. She, and all her children, had been interned for the duration of the Second World War in Stanley Camp, Hong Kong. My father, with three sons, joined the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence corps at the request of the authorities to help the Empire, because of the threat of invasion by the Japanese.

What do you do on Halloween when your job makes it Halloween every night? Frank Marino, who portrays Joan Rivers in \"An Evening at La Cage,\" is even more adamant. Though he's nearly always asked to judge this or that costume contest, \"I draw the line at going in drag,\" he says. \"Then it's not Halloween for me.\" Requests to judge contests make Halloween a sort of busman's holiday for female impersonators. But they aren't the only performers who engage in year-round masquerades and trickery.

A couple of weird items from the \"Odds & Sods\" file: A toxicology report for one Anthony Pettine, better known as Vegas lounge funkster Cook E. Jarr, arrived in the mail confirming Mr. Jarr's drug-free lifestyle. Seems a Bourbon Street Hotel honcho (let's skip naming him) half-jokingly suggested the pre-employment test after the Cook E. Monster's anti-drug stance was revealed in an item here a couple months back. \"I think it stinks,\" said popular \"Legends In Concert\" Elvis impersonator Pete Wilcox of the marketing move that has put \"Elvis, the Fragrance\" on the market in time for Christmas (available at J.C. Penney).

Bill Medley is just one friend to have stumbled upon the relic that might have made his friend Cook E. Jarr more than just a Las Vegas lounge legend. It's a vinyl LP called \"Pledging My Love\" that came out on the RCA Victor label in 1969. Medley spotted it in a vintage record store and \"wanted to surprise me with it,\" Jarr relates. \"It was a disaster,\" the Jarr says. Even the album cover was goofy, albeit not so much within the context of its time: the singer, wearing a pre-Prince get-up, sitting inside a giant cookie jar, like a genie in a bottle.

Love, albeit one-sided, will surely be part of the fantasy at the Las Vegas debut of dance diva Taylor Dayne. For traditionalists (Vegas tradition, anyway) there's a sequined Cook E. Jarr crooning Michael Bolton covers when he's not doing the \"Wild Thing\" at a special dance in his name. The cassette sports a moody, instrumentally rounded sound that falls between REM and Toad The Wet Sprocket. The quintet makes a Las Vegas road trip to play the downtown Mad Dogs & Englishmen Pub, 515 Las Vegas Blvd. South, at 11:30 p.m. today. Hostage Symphony, a local band with a CD of its own, opens at 10 p.m. Admission is $3.TAYLOR DAYNE Trae, a hard rocker with a dance-funk undercurrent in the Fishbone and Red Hot Chili Peppers vein, hooks up with Australian hard-pop band Chocolate Starfish for a double-feature at Club Rock, 3200 Sirius Ave. The show starts at midnight Sunday (Saturday night). The alternative pop of Starfish has twice cracked the Australian Top 40; one tune is a tongue-in-cheek remake of Carley Simon's hit \"You're So Vain.\" Admission is $5.

One-wheel spills, not cheap thrills, usually account for most of the embarrassing moments in unicyclist Peter Rosendahl's act at Circus Circus. But the 23-year-old Swede who bills himself as the \"fastest man on one wheel\" isn't above showing a little skin when he has to. Then there was the time he was doing his rock 'n' roll dance routine with his wife, Betty. In that number, Rosendahl rides one of his tall unicycles while dancing sock-hop-style with his wife. At one point, she jumps on his lap and straddles him while he rides. Melinda, the \"First Lady of Magic,\" says most of her mishaps involve the animals in her act, especially her accident-prone lion, Napoleon. Luckily, when Napoleon \"decides that he has to do his thing,\" Melinda says he usually tips his hand. \"He kind of opens his mouth and his tongue pops out,\" she says.

Introduced by a fellow DJ as \"the immortal living Las Vegas legend\" - no brag, just fact - [Cook E. Jarr] hits the stage with flair, daring to compare his 2005 self with one from a few decades ago, embodied in a cardboard cutout from the late disco era featuring his full-body likeness, augmented by a sign urging audiences to \"Feed the Jar.\" (The jar in question being Cook E.'s omnipresent \"Tip Jarr,\" a genuine cookie jar in the shape of a slot machine.) Jarr's \"a great fit for Vegas,\" comments Jimmy Kimmel, who grew up in Las Vegas and has featured Jarr twice (so far) on \"Jimmy Kimmel Live,\" his late-night ABC talk show. \"He's exactly the kind of thing people hope to see when they're in Vegas.\" In between tunes, Jarr regales the crowd with tales of Vegas, from his daily sports betting habit to the joys of dry desert heat, and throws in philosophical nuggets from the Gospel According to Cook E. Jarr.

The city's two kitschiest lounge lizards -- Louie Louie and [Cook E. Jarr] -- are seeing the sequined stars shine a little brighter for them these days. Louie Louie (aka Louie Cordero) pulled the plug March 1 on a self- financed weekend run in the Stardust showroom, but bounced back with a strong opening at Santa Fe Station last weekend. Stardust spokesman Jim Seagrave says that while Louie Louie had \"too tough a task\" building up a late-night audience at the hotel, a Friday evening series of free contemporary jazz concerts has developed a solid following.